vSphere 7 with Kubernetes

Enable Kubernetes Functionality on vSphere 7 cluster

1. Select a vSphere Cluster to enabled Kubernetes functionality
2. Select the Menu pull down
3. Select Workload Management from the menu
   

From the Workload Management view you will see the vCenter you working on and NSX-T indication if the vCenter is properly prepared with NSX-T. This screen also shows some of the basic prerequisites for enabling Kubernetes on the cluster.

Select vSphere Cluster to Enable Kubernetes

1. Click the Enable button to proceed
2. If the cluster meets the requirements you will see it listed in the Compatible cluster details view.
3. If your cluster is not listed, click the Incompatible cluster button to determine the issue
4. Select your cluster from the list
5. Click Next
6. Set the Control Plane size based on the expected environment.  For POC or lab we suggest Small
7. Click Next
   

Configure Supervisor Cluster Control Plane Management Network

1. Click View Network Topology to reference how the networking for the Supervisor Cluster is configured
2. Scroll Down
3. Close the Topology view
4. Select the distributed port group for the management interface of the Supervisor Cluster VMs [Needs network connectivity to vCenter and ESXi hosts]
5. In our example we will select management
   
6. Enter the starting IP for the Supervisor Cluster Management IPs. We will use 10.0.100.50 in our example. Note this will use 5 IPs in sequence [Described in Networking Requirements Section of Topology Guide]
7. Enter the Subnet Mask Field
8. Enter the Gateway
9. Enter DNS Server
10. Enter NTP Server(s)
11. Select the VDS that NSX is configured on
12. Select the NSX Edge Cluster
13. Enter DNS Server
14. Enter or Accept default POD CIDR
15. Enter or Accept Services CIDR
16. Enter Ingress CIDR (Used for LB VIPs) [Note: must have static route on physical network pointing to NSX Edge Uplink]
17. Enter Egress CIDR (Used for NAT entries for Namespaces) [Note: must have route on physical network point to NSX Edge Uplink]
18. Click Next

Configure Supervisor Cluster Control Plane Storage

1. Select the Storage to use for the Supervisor Cluster.  Control Plane Nodes, Ephemeral Disks and Image Cache can all use the same or different storage policies and endpoints.
2. Select the K8s-storage policy from the list
3. Click OK and repeat for remaining items.
4. Click Finish

View Supervisor Cluster Objects and Install Progress

1. Click on Menu
2. Select Host and Clusters view
3. Expand the newly created Namespaces Object. Note the 3 SupervisorControlPlane VMs
4. Expand the Recents tasks to view progress
5. Scroll Down in the Task window
6. Scroll Up to top of Task
7. Click to fast forward through deployment

Configure Content Library

VMware uses a publically accessible Content Delivery Network (CDN) to publish image templates used to deploy TKG workload clusters on vSphere 7.  To leverage these templates you need to configure a subscribed content library in vCenter.

1. Select the Menu pull down
2. Select Content Libraries
3. Click Create
4. Name the content library
5. Click Next
6. Select Subscribed Content Library
7. Paste in the like {https://wp-content.vmware.com/v2/latest/lib.json}
8. Click Next
9. Click Yes to accept the SSL thumbprint of the library
10. Select a datastore to use to store images
11. Click Next
12. Click Finish
13. You can view the contents of the library by clicking on it
14. Click on OVF & OVA Templates
15. Finally Select the OVA Template for more info
16. Click on Menu
17. Click on Hosts and Clusters to view status of Control Plane VMs
18. Click on Menu
19. Click on Workload Management.  When installation has finished you will be able to view the cluster information and create namespaces here

End of Simulation